Senior AI Research Engineer - LLM Training & Inference Infrastructure

About the job

As a Research Engineer on the Frontier Foundations team, you will partner with Research Scientists to build the systems that run large-scale LLM training, reinforcement learning, and inference at Datadog. You will build and operate an in-house distributed runtime that schedules work across large GPU clusters, and you will own how quickly researchers can iterate and how reliably long training runs complete. Building on our track record of AI-powered solutions (e.g., Bits AI, Bits Evolve, and our time series foundation model Toto), Datadog AI Research (DAIR) tackles high-risk, high-reward problems grounded in real-world challenges in cloud observability and security. The Frontier Foundations…